“Flying Ice” Ban Tested

Besides dumping snow on the state, the first winter storm of 2014 also should test Connecticut’s new effort to control flying ice on its highways.

According to a new law that took effect this week, truck drivers could be fined up to $1,250 if accumulated ice dislodges and causes damage to a person or to another vehicle.

What became known as the “flying ice” or “ice missile” law is the product of more than a decade of legislative debate over how to handle large sheets of frozen material that unexpectedly crash into the windshields of unlucky motorists each winter.

Sometimes drivers are only momentarily blinded. On other occasions, the ice actually crashes through the windshield.

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